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Perfectionism in College Students: The Mental Health Consequences of Trying to Be Perfect

Reading Time: 7 minutesA new study finds that college students have became increasingly perfectionistic since 1989, and the more perfectionistic they are, the more likely they are to experience anxiety or depression.

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How to Know If You Are in an Abusive Relationship

Reading Time: 6 minutesAbuse within relationships can take many forms. Not all abusive relationships are physically violent. In fact, emotional abuse within relationships is even more common than physical abuse. And the two often go together. The very public relationship between Taylor Frankie Paul, a star of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” and her ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen shines […]

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How to Drink Less During the Holidays

Reading Time: 7 minutesFor many people, particularly young adults, holiday celebrations don’t feel complete without a festive drink—or maybe two or three. Whether it’s a holiday meal with family or a New Year’s Eve cocktail party, seasonal events are often inseparable from alcohol consumption. Stress can also play a role in holiday drinking. Coming home for the holidays […]

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Hangxiety: The Link Between Alcohol and Anxiety

Reading Time: 7 minutesYou might not know what it’s called, but you may have experienced it: a sense of impending doom and feelings of shame and worry the morning after a night of drinking. These emotions are paired with physical symptoms, like shakiness and nausea. This uncomfortable state is known as hangxiety (sometimes spelled hangziety or hanxiety). Also […]

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The Latest Research on Young Adult DMT Use

Reading Time: 6 minutesPsychedelic drugs like DMT have been around for a long time, but their popularity has increased in recent years. In fact, last year 10 percent of young adults tried a hallucinogenic drug like DMT—a record high among this age group. Why are so many young adults using DMT and other psychedelics? Some, especially college students, […]

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Eating Disorders in College Students: Risk Factors, Signs, and 5 Ways to Help

Reading Time: 8 minutesCollege is a time of growth, independence, and new beginnings. However, for many young adults, it also comes with overwhelming pressure, emotional strain, and a deep sense of uncertainty. As a result, some students turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms like disordered eating. They might start restricting foods, bingeing late at night while studying, or obsessing over […]

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5 Ways to Build a More Relaxed Relationship with Food

Reading Time: 6 minutesFood is often at the center of social life. For young adults, socializing tends to revolve around dinner parties or brunch out on Sundays. And that can be incredibly stressful for young people with disordered eating behaviors and poor body image—which includes more than half of college students. A difficult relationship with food creates ongoing […]

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How to Cope with the Sunday Scaries

Reading Time: 6 minutesYou may not know it has a name, but you’ve probably experienced it—that creeping sense of dread that comes over you on Sunday night, as the prospect of going back to school or work looms closer. It’s called the Sunday scaries, and young adults are more prone to it than other age groups, according to […]

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How to Drink Less in College

Reading Time: 10 minutesFor many college students, drinking alcohol is a central part of college life, not to mention a central part of early adulthood. Drinking can feel like a liberating and exciting activity for young adults branching out on their own. But excessive drinking as a young adult can have dangerous consequences, in both the short and […]

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What Is Trauma Dumping? Examples, Signs, and Effects

Reading Time: 8 minutesIf you’ve ever watched a reality dating show, you’ve probably seen an example of trauma dumping. It’s that moment during a date when someone opens up about an intense and distressing event in their personal history.

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Summer Substance Use: Why Young Adult Drinking and Drug Use Increase in Summer

Reading Time: 6 minutesSummer is the season for young adults to kick back, enjoy the sunshine, hang out with friends, and get some down time. But the lazy days of summer can also be a dangerous time. When days are longer and temperatures rise, young adult substance use increases. In fact, summer is the most common time for […]

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Orthorexia in Young Adults: When Healthy Eating Isn’t Healthy

Reading Time: 6 minutesBeing health conscious is usually a good thing. We’ve all been told that eating vegetables is good for us. But young adults who have an obsessive focus on healthy eating may be suffering from orthorexia. Ironically, orthorexia in young adults can potentially damage health and well-being. And the disorder is more common in college students than in […]

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Ketamine Use in Young Adults: Statistics, Side Effects, and Treatment

Reading Time: 5 minutesKetamine was a popular party drug found in dance clubs in the 1990s. Today, illicit use of the drug appears to be increasing among young adults. One of the greatest risks to young adult users is that most illegally obtained ketamine is sold in powder form. That means it could be laced with deadly drugs […]

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How Vaping Affects Mental Health

Reading Time: 7 minutesResearch shows that vaping is harmful to mental health as well as physical health. New studies show the links between vaping and mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, psychosis, and eating disorders. However, one-third of young people believe that vaping nicotine is no worse than drinking a cup of coffee, and most don’t realize vaping […]

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Brain Rot: The Impact on Young Adult Mental Health

Reading Time: 6 minutesWe’ve all experienced that foggy feeling after a late night and little sleep. It’s hard to focus. Productivity wanes. We can feel agitated, anxious, negative, even depressed. If drinking or drug use was involved the night before, we might feel even more lethargic and disoriented. These days, many of us experience these feelings, even when […]

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5 Strategies for Preventing Self-Harm Relapse

Reading Time: 6 minutesWhy do young people self-harm and how they can find self-harm recovery? Since self-harm typically starts in early to mid-adolescence, many young adults who struggle with this behavior may have been in treatment before, were able to stop, and then had a self-harm relapse during a period of emotional distress. Preventing self-harm relapse starts with […]

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Lean Drug: Side Effects, Dangers, and Treatment Options

Reading Time: 4 minutesLean, also known as Purple Drank, Sizzurp, Texas Tea, Purple Tonic, and Dirty Sprite, is a substance that is made by combining an opioid such as codeine with alcohol, cough syrup, soda, or candy. Young people started using lean in the 1960s. In the 1990s, it became popular again through the hip-hop and EDM culture. […]

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Hallucinogen Use in Young Adults: New Stats and Research

Reading Time: 6 minutesHallucinogen use in young adults is at an all-time high. The number of people in this age group who use drugs such as PCP, peyote, and psilocybin has doubled over the past decade. As a result, young adult substance use and mental health disorders related to hallucinogens are also increasing. Many young adults don’t realize […]

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What Are Stimulants, and Which Ones Are Young Adults Abusing?

Reading Time: 5 minutesYoung adults are under enormous stress. Between academic pressure, workplace stressors, social anxiety, and struggles with self-worth and mental health, they often feel as if they’re underwater all the time. They don’t have enough hours in the day to fit everything in, and they never get enough sleep. Stimulant drugs seem to offer a way […]

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LGBTQ Youth Mental Health: New Research and Statistics

Reading Time: 5 minutesYoung adults have been hit harder than any other age group by the psychological, political, economic, and social repercussions of the last two years. And within this demographic, young people who identify as LGBTQ have been even more drastically impacted. A new Trevor Project survey on LGBTQ youth mental health found that 64 percent of […]

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What Is Maladaptive Daydreaming?

Reading Time: 8 minutesDo you ever find yourself gazing out the window and daydreaming while sitting at your desk at work or in the classroom? Maybe you’ve imagined landing the perfect job, marrying your sweetheart, dining with a celebrity, taking a tropical vacation, winning the lottery … Or maybe you imagine yourself confronting a difficult boss or taking […]

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What Is Borg Drinking, the Latest TikTok Trend?

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe world of TikTok can be a mystifying and bizarre place. Trends sweep through the social media app like wildfire. Some of these trends—like dance challenges and lip sync videos—are cute and funny. But many of the trends, are mystifying, bizarre, and even, like the recent borg trend, dangerous. Remember the Tide Pod challenge? This […]

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The Most Common Process Addictions in Young Adults

Reading Time: 8 minutesIs there anything wrong about using fun, distracting activities to relieve stress—like gaming, gambling, shopping, and scrolling through social media? Not when those activities are done in moderation. But if they become compulsive and start to take over your mind and your life, you may be struggling with a process addiction, also known as a […]

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Alcoholism in Women: Signs, Causes, and Consequences

Reading Time: 5 minutesAlcoholism in women is increasing as a growing number of young women turn to alcohol to cope with mental health issues. As rates of anxiety and depression rise among young adult women, alcohol misuse is also going up—along with related health risks. Recent surveys show that levels of stress, anxiety, worry, sadness and anger among […]

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Toxic Productivity in Young Adults: The Mental Health Causes and Consequences

Reading Time: 6 minutesWe live in a culture that prides itself on hard work and productivity. Neither of those things is inherently bad. But when you’re driven to be productive nonstop at the expense of your physical and mental health, you’re likely experiencing toxic productivity. Setting realistic goals and working to accomplish them produces satisfaction and increases feelings […]

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10 Pathological Liar Signs and How to Cope with a Habitual Liar

Reading Time: 8 minutesMost of us lie once in a while. We’ve all told a white lie to protect someone’s feelings, or stretched the truth a little to avoid a conflict or get out of something we don’t want to do. Lying isn’t ideal in any situation. But when it becomes a habit, and other pathological liar signs […]

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Identifying and Healing Adult Child Syndrome

Reading Time: 6 minutesWhat is an adult child? As defined within the context of mental health, an adult child is someone who grew up in a dysfunctional family environment that prevented them from fully maturing emotionally. Adult child syndrome is characterized by an inability to navigate adult decisions and relationships due to the long-term impact of childhood trauma. […]

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What Is Failure to Launch Syndrome in Young Adults?

Reading Time: 8 minutesThe pandemic forced many emerging adults to take a few steps backward on their path to maturity. College students who had recently left the nest returned home. New graduates lost jobs or struggled to find one. Dating and romantic relationships stalled. From the outside, the early pandemic time for young adults resembled what’s known as […]

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How the Fentanyl Epidemic Threatens Young Adults

Reading Time: 4 minutesAddiction and deaths due to the synthetic opioid fentanyl are increasingly prevalent among young people. Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl are now the most common drugs involved in overdose deaths in the United States. And the dangers of fentanyl are multiplied by the proliferation of fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills that look like Percocet, oxycodone, and […]

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The Mental Health Effects of Social Media Addiction and Overuse in Young Adults

Reading Time: 6 minutesFor many young people, checking social media is the first thing they do when they wake up in the morning. And it’s the last thing they do at night. Research shows that 16- to 24-year-olds spend an average of three hours a day using social media. Increasing numbers of people sense that their habits are […]

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The Truth About Male Body Image Issues

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe stigma around male body image issues often prevents young men from speaking honestly about their experiences and seeking treatment for related mental health challenges.

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Codependency Disorder in Young Adults

Reading Time: 7 minutesCodependency disorder is a type of dysfunctional relationship in which one or both people experiences an unhealthy level of reliance on the other. A codependent person may feel they are worthless without the other person.

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Common Types of Party Drugs Young Adults Abuse During Spring Break

Reading Time: 6 minutesUse of a variety of common types of party drugs has reached record levels among young adults. In particular, use of the party drugs marijuana and hallucinogens is at historically high levels, according to a recent Monitoring the Future (MTF) study. Young adults use party drugs to enhance social experiences and feel more intense emotions […]

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Do You Use a Filter Every Time You Post?

Reading Time: 6 minutesIf you answered yes to that question, you’re not alone. Who doesn’t want whiter teeth, brighter skin, more symmetrical features? Social media filters let us have that and more, so we can keep up with all the other filter-using selfie-takers in our feeds. How could there be anything wrong with that? It’s a natural impulse […]

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How Generation Z Unemployment Affects Well-Being

Reading Time: 5 minutesGen Z unemployment rates, which were already high before the pandemic, are growing, which can have an impact on well-being and mental health.

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Gender Differences in Emotional Health and Neurobiology

Reading Time: 5 minutesWomen are diagnosed with PTSD twice as often as men, while men are more likely to use drugs or alcohol to self-medicate their psychological pain. These are just two of the many gender differences in emotional health that research has uncovered. Scientists and mental health experts ascribe these disparities to a number of factors, including […]

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The Effects of Drug Legalization

Reading Time: 5 minutesWith an increasing number of states legalizing marijuana and other drugs, the debate continues on whether the negative effects of drug decriminalization outweigh the positives. Researchers, policymakers, and public health officials provide arguments on both sides. For mental health experts, however, the most relevant question is how drug legalization will impact rates of substance abuse […]

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Are Cigarettes a Gateway Drug?

Reading Time: 6 minutesResearch shows that alcohol and marijuana can serve as “gateways” to using harder drugs. But there’s another gateway drug that young adults should be aware of: nicotine. Smoking cigarettes or using e-cigarettes in your late teens and early 20s creates changes in the brain and body that can make young people more apt to experiment […]

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